When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.
The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.
One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.
You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
The siddhas are developed through the tonal, not the nagual.
You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.
Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.
I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?
Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.
There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.
Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.
As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.